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When the countryside comes to you. Find out when and where you can enjoy the pleasures of browsing through an outdoor market in the Riviera for local produce, fresh fruit and vegetables and organic food from the bio-food producers...
There are very few towns or villages along the French Riviera without their own, special food market. We have just listed a selection of them to start you off. For your local markets, ask at your Tourist Office (where staff usually speak some English).
Alpes-Maritimes (06) | |
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Antibes | Daily except Mondays: Cours Massena |
Beaulieu-sur-Mer | Monday, Tuesday, Saturday mornings: Place Général de Gaulle. |
Beausoleil | Monday, Tuesday, Saturday mornings: Boulevard de la Republic. |
Biot | Tuesday mornings: Place de Gaulle. |
Breil sur Roya | Tuesday mornings: Place Biancheri. |
Cabris | Friday mornings |
Cagnes-sur-Mer | Daily except Monday, mornings only: Cité Marchande |
Cannes | Every day except Monday, mornings only: Forville Market Every day except Monday, mornings only: Place Gambetta |
Cannes La Bocca | Daily, mornings only: Place de la Poste. Saturday mornings: La Bocca. |
Cannet-Rocheville | Saturday mornings: Place Bellevue. Organic foods: Wednesday mornings: Place del'Aubarede Wednesday and Sunday mornings: Place de l'Église. Sunday mornings: Place Foch. |
Chateauneuf Pre du Lac | Monday mornings: in the parking area, Pré du Lac |
Golfe Juan | Friday mornings: Place de l'Église Fresh fish stall, every morning except Mondays: old port (at the intersection of Place de la Douane and Avenue des Frères Roustan) |
Grasse | Every morning except Monday: Place aux Aires |
Guillaumes | Daily: Rue Principale |
La Colle sur Loup | Saturday mornings: Very small market (usually vegetables, fish and Italian meats) Rue Clemenceau, Old town centre |
Eze | Thursday morning: Place Colette |
Mandelieu-La-Napoule | Wednesdays mornings: Parking area des Termes, Place des Combattants d'Indochine et d'Afrique du Nord Thursday mornings: Avenue du 23 Août, La Napoule (across from the Mairie annex, in the car park) Organic foods: Saturday mornings: Capitou, Place Jeanne d'Arc |
Menton | Daily, mornings only: Gare Routière and Port. Tuesday mornings: Gare Routière. Saturday mornings: Près du Port |
Mouans-Sartoux | Tuesday mornings: Esplanade de l'école Thursday mornings: Place Jean Jaures |
Nice | Daily except Mondays: Fruit, vegetables & flowers, Cours Saleya. Every morning except Monday: Fish Market, Place St François. Daily except Mondays: St Roch |
Pégomas | Friday mornings: Place du Logis |
Peymeinade | Monday mornings for Bio food products: Place du Centenaire |
Roquebrune Cap Martin | Every morning: Quartier Carnoles |
Saint Jeannet | Thursday mornings: Place de l'Église |
Saint-Laurent-du-Var | Flower market, every Saturday: Promenade des Flots Bleus. Sunday mornings: Esplanade du Levant. Agri-Bio: Tuesdays and Fridays in front of Cap 3000 |
Saint Vallier de Thiey | Friday mornings: Place Saint Roch Sunday: Marché Provençal, all day on the Grand Pré |
Sospel | Local produce, Thursday mornings: Place des Platanes Local Produce, Sunday mornings: Place du Marché |
Tourrettes sur Loup | Wednesday mornings: Place de la Libération |
Valbonne | Tuesday and Thursday mornings: Place Belmond Food and clothes, Friday mornings: Place des Arcades |
Vallauris | Mornings except Mondays: Place de l'Homme aux Moutons |
Vence | Flowers every morning except Monday: Place du Grand Jardin. Fruit and vegetables every morning except Monday: Place Surian. |
Villefranche-sur-Mer | Saturday mornings in the Jardin Binon |
Villeneuve-Loubet | Agro-bio in the village Wednesday and Saturday mornings |
Var (83) | |
Agay | Wednesday mornings: Place Giannetti |
Barjols | Saturday mornings |
Brignoles | Wednesday and Saturday mornings |
Cogolin | Wednesday mornings: Place Victor Hugo (on the bowling pitch) Friday mornings: Marines de Cogolin Saturday mornings: Place Etienne Dolet (Place de l'Eglise) |
Cotignac | Tuesday mornings: Provençal variety Friday mornings: local produce |
Entrecasteaux | Friday mornings |
Fréjus | Bio foods, Saturday mornings: place de la Poste, Fréjus Plage Sunday mornings: Produce market on the western end of the beachfront market at boulevard d'Alger (Fréjus plage) |
Hyères | Tuesday mornings: fresh farm produce, Place de la République Saturday mornings: fresh farm produce, Avenue Gambetta Bio foods, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings: Place Vicomtesse de Noailles |
Lorgues | Tuesday mornings: Town centre |
Montauroux | Tuesday mornings |
Saint Agulfe | Fridays: in the town |
Sainte Maxime | Mornings except Monday (winter): Rue Fernand Bessy (fresh foods, fish and flowers) Daily all day (summer): Rue Fernand Bessy Monday mornings: The "Capet" Market, ave George Clemenceau (food) Thursday mornings: Place des Sarrazins (regional produce, fruit and vegetables) Fridays: Place Jean Mermoz (mixed food/clothing/more) |
Saint Raphaël | Every morning except Monday: Place Victor Hugo and Place République Monday morning: Esplanade St-Jean à Boulouris Wednesday morning: Place Giannetti à Agay Fish market: every morning in the Vieux Port |
Saint Tropez | General market for food, clothes, antiques, Tuesday and Saturday mornings. |
Théoule-sur-Mer | Every Friday morning: Place Général Bertrand |
Toulon | Bio foods, Friday mornings: Place Dupuy-de-Lôme |
Monaco | |
Place d'Armes | Every morning |
Avenue Saint Charles | Daily, closed for lunch |
Marché de la Condamine (near railway station) | Outside market: fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers. Inside market: butchery, fishmonger, homeware and utensils, special foods, wine and Scandinavian products. Easy parking at Parking de la Codamine |
Behind Place d'Armes Marché de la Condamine | International Food Market: British, Indian and Asian Food. Open all day Monday to Saturday. |
Italy | |
Ventimiglia | Friday mornings |
San Remo | Tuesday and Saturday mornings |